Article by Aurelian Botezatu – published on Thursday, June 5, 2025, 08:58 / Updated Thursday, 05 June 2025 08:58
Portugal broke down Joshua Kimmich's jubilee, defeating Germany at home, 2-1, in the semifinals of the League of Nations.
Joshua Kimmich checked on Wednesday night against Portugal (1-2), the match with the number 100 in the German national shirt. The German Football Federation (DFB) gave him a gift a train blouse embroidered on his chest, but the biggest surprise was another!
Joshua Kimmich was driven on the ground by his son
Kimmich remained with his mouth shut when he glanced at his eldest son, included by the DFB officials among the kids who accompanied the teams on the field. “What?!?!”, He shouted to Bayern's midfielder, visibly surprised, but also very excited.
The captain of Mannschaft then took his hand and went together to the center of the field, according to the protocol already become a tradition in world football, at club and national level.
The whole family of Kimmich, his wife Lina and the other three children, supported him from the stand. But the match was not what they wanted. After a good first half and the opening of the score shortly after the resumption (48), Florian Wirtz from Joshua's pass, the Germans gave up control, and Francisco Conceicao (63) and Cristiano Ronaldo (68) returned, Portugal imposed 2-1 and will dispute the final.
Joshua Kimmich: “After 1-0 I did not do anything else”
After the final whistle, the captain did not clean neither himself nor the teammates. “An absolutely deserved defeat. I played well in the first half, although it was too little – with the ball and without it. In the second half, after taking the lead on the table, we did nothing. We must learn certain lessons from it.
We must understand that if we are not one hundred percent, it will be difficult against any opponent. We will not be able to deal with a top European team. We need to be honest in this regard. Today I was not active enough – with and without ball. We were unable to bring energy to the field and we deserved to lose.
TCU We all have to go to the limit. We must be honest and say that today it was one of our weakest matches, based exclusively on performance. We have the chance to react on Sunday ”. Germany will meet in the match for 3rd place on the defeat of the other semifinals, Spain – France.
